Resources/Questions from the session-

Farm photos:

http://www.loc.gov/resource/pan.6a00125

Book resources:

At this site there are a few ideas, it is an online module but may spark ideas for other book choices too:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/

this is a bit older and no longer updated, but maybe a few resources and hopefully ideas...
http://bookwink.com/

http://www.educationworld.com/summer_reading/7th_grade.shtml

http://www.teachersfirst.com/readlist2-new.cfm?age=7

http://www.avon.k12.ma.us/librarymedia/100bookstoreadmiddleschool.htm

Boone-Winnebago County- Ag Literacy

July 9th

Introduction Activity

handout
Select photos
describe why you picked
Howard Gardner's entry point approach

Introductions.pptx

Poll Everywhere

What are your thoughts on Common Core?
https://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/QDsxw7RlmBdaVDO

Agenda

Buffet Style, but...
Lots to cover: http://answergarden.ch/view/99318

CCSS

Breaking down a standard
Shifts

Primary Sources

Define
Analyze
How to find on LOC

Activities/Ideas

Wrap up- http://answergarden.ch/view/99318

Common Core Breakdown
PowerPoint
K-12 breakdown of the anchor standard

Breaking the standards down.pptx

Anchor Standards- The CCR and grade-specific standards are necessary complements—the former providing broad standards, the latter providing additional specificity—that together define the skills and understandings that all students must demonstrate.

K-12 Activity- Handout

Common Core shift- close reading

Common Core shift- informational text

Primary Sources

What are they?
How do you analyze a Primary Source?

Primary Source Ideas and Activities

What is a primary source?

Analyzing Primary Sources

Analysis tool

handout
Grocery primary source
Analyze tool- connect with See/Think/Wonder

loc.gov
how to find primary sources
search tips

Activities + Standards

History Hunters
handouts
Questioning
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1.C
Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
Question standard K-HS

Resources/Connections

Notice & Note
Falling in Love with Close Reading
Connectin gChildren with Children , Past & Present

Strategies for Reading Informational Text

http://iteachicoachiblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/five-simple-close-reading-strategies.html

Read.Write.Think.

ReadWriteThink- Building Comprehension with Informational Text

ISBE Resource for Teaching and Instruction Resources

http://www.isbe.net/common_core/pdf/ela-teach-strat-read-text-k-5.pdf

Nebraska- Student friendly language-ELA CCSS (I Can Statements)

http://www.education.ne.gov/read/StudentFriendlyStandards/

The Common Core and Close Reading- An Outcome Not a Reading Strategy

http://dconrad3.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/common-core-close-reading-an-outcome-not-a-reading-strategy/

Writing: Focus/Support/Wrap up

http://www.phylsquill.com/downloads.htm

Stapleless Book Tool:

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/stapleless-book-30010.html

KWL

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/creator-30846.html

Persuasion Interactive

Get your argument organized:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/

Interactive Read a-louds that connect with the Common Core State Standards

http://ayearofmanyfirsts.blogspot.com/2013/02/lets-cut-to-common-core.html

Common Core Appendix B- Book lists

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf

Read alouds (chapter books)

http://www.elementarymatters.com/2012/09/exemplar-read-aloud-texts-for-common.html

Grade level lists

http://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/windingspringsES/Pages/CommonCoreSuggestedReadingList.aspx

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